Guitar Improvisationstag:typepad.com,2003:post-425663262008-05-14T08:11:00-07:002009-04-22T07:11:52-07:00I was trying to replicate the Reggaeton rythm on the guitar using spanish-style chord variations.. Click on Play ShahinExperimentalRythm.MPG to view the video.shahin

Sea of Lighttag:typepad.com,2003:post-18857522004-08-09T20:24:00-07:002004-08-09T20:24:00-07:00Translated from the great Varqa Click here to load the background music (courtesy of amazon clipserver) It’s morn and the morning breeze brings, that spring scented wind and I taste the fragrance of life from my beloved's locks of hairshahin

It’s morn and the morning breezebrings,that spring scented windand I taste the fragrance of lifefrom my beloved's locks of hair

T.S. Eliot's Waste Landtag:typepad.com,2003:post-18860152004-08-03T01:09:00-07:002004-08-03T01:09:00-07:00T.S. Eliot’s work “The Waste Land” is a powerful depiction of a world. It is a place that has everything but is devoid of life and so everything becomes nothing. This is a fragmented poem where he writes in a...shahin

T.S. Eliot’s work “The Waste Land” is a powerful depiction of a world. It is a place that has everything but is devoid of life and so everything becomes nothing. This is a fragmented poem where he writes in a shattered style so the poem itself speaks through its contrasting accents. Here he also introduces timeless dialog that reflects much of what we see today. His prophetic words “I can connect nothing with nothing” show a connected world were meaning is lost. Here the land is a reflection of the people. T.S. Eliot received the Noble Prize for Literature for his work.

This work is a great example of how literature can transcend the bounds of culture and language. This poem is an opposite mirror of Sepehri’s work. Where Sepehri shows life, Eliot shows its non-existence.

Click on the links below to view most of my translation of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land into Persian:

Rumi's "Dialog With The Soul"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-18859612004-08-01T21:23:39-07:002004-08-01T21:23:39-07:00Drowned I the sea of self in itself Wonder what boundless sea that I am This is the first poem I translated from Rumi. Read full translation by clicking here.shahin

Drowned I the sea of self in itself
Wonder what boundless sea that I am

Rumi - Death In Lovetag:typepad.com,2003:post-18857812004-08-01T20:33:29-07:002004-08-01T20:33:29-07:00Embrace death, embrace death, in this love, death embrace in this love as death's embraced all shall live receiving life Accept death, accepting Not fearing Arise above the dust And rise unto heaven In death severe the self That binds...shahin

Embrace death, embrace death,
in this love, death embrace
in this love as death's embraced
all shall live receiving life
Accept death, accepting
Not fearing
Arise above the dust
And rise unto heaven
In death severe the self
That binds your self to yourself
Yourself enslaved, enchained
Take the axe and unchain
Shatter the cell, free that King
Beauteous king, that in death lives
in us all, as kings live
To die then is to descend
And cast away the cloud
From that luminous moon
Be silent, in silence
Does death descend and we
Embrace life, in silence.

Hafiztag:typepad.com,2003:post-18857772004-08-01T20:31:59-07:002004-08-01T20:31:59-07:00Come let us spread the roses bed and in the wine cup cast love's wine and the heavens let us tear asunder and roll out anew in its stead if sorrow does legions send bent on lover's blood be shed...shahin

Come let us spread the roses bed
and in the wine cup cast love's wine
and the heavens let us tear asunder
and roll out anew in its stead
if sorrow does legions send
bent on lover's blood be shed
you and I who hold the cup
will conspire and roll it up

Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-18857692004-08-01T20:29:30-07:002004-08-01T20:29:30-07:00When first I gazed upon your face our eyes did lock your face to mine Your sorrow hence I shall recount each thought each strand of hair entwined to see your face I then set out as zephyr wind to...shahin

When first I gazed upon your face
our eyes did lock your face to mine
Your sorrow hence I shall recount
each thought each strand of hair entwined
to see your face I then set out
as zephyr wind to cross to find
From house to house and door to door
each way each street, each path each place

MIT Open CourseWaretag:typepad.com,2003:post-18857242004-08-01T20:15:42-07:002004-08-01T20:15:42-07:00MIT, one of the world's top universities, has placed all the material for 500 courses on the Internet. They have placed everything on their web site in a move to provide a free educational resource to everyone around the world....shahin

MIT, one of the world's top universities, has placed all the material for 500 courses on the Internet. They have placed everything on their web site in a move to provide a free educational resource to everyone around the world. Visit the web site at: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

Is there an ocean in space?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-18443202004-08-01T20:11:00-07:002004-08-01T20:11:00-07:00I became interested in whether Jupiter's moon Europa has a sub-surface ocean. I wanted to compare the surface on Europa to frozen ice on Earth's oceans. You can get to the research paper if you click on the image of...shahin

I became interested in whether Jupiter's moon Europa has a sub-surface ocean. I wanted to compare the surface on Europa to frozen ice on Earth's oceans. You can get to the research paper if you click on the image of Europa below:

After this research I wanted to understand the mathematics behind combining two fractals so I took a fractal's class and the results are also posted under "super-imposing fractals" in this weblog.

Super-imposing Fractalstag:typepad.com,2003:post-18856992004-08-01T20:06:00-07:002004-08-01T20:06:00-07:00If two distinct processes create two differing fractal dimensions (i.e. geological processes--breaking of ice and shifting of icy surfaces) then what happens if the processes get super-imposed? What is the mathematics involved in this? The math attached is perhaps one...shahin

If two distinct processes create two differing fractal dimensions (i.e. geological processes--breaking of ice and shifting of icy surfaces) then what happens if the processes get super-imposed? What is the mathematics involved in this? The math attached is perhaps one way to try to answer this. I used both empirical (Mathematica tm) and theoretical approaches yielding similar results.